• @PyroVK@lemmy.zip
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    239 months ago

    Supposedly the glued on titanium is the same thing the US Army does for their small Submarines, though I’m sure they found some way to cheap out/fuck up.

      • Captain Aggravated
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        99 months ago

        I know of at least a couple maintenance shops that will give their expired composite materials to a mechanic school for students to use in class projects. This usage is actually a good idea, completely unlike using it to build a manned submersible.

      • @curry@programming.dev
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        79 months ago

        Recycled parts? That’s simply being too dumb to be alive on this world. And I thought putting a wireless xbox controller for navigating the damn sub was dumb enough.

        • @Revan343@lemmy.ca
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          179 months ago

          Frankly that controller was probably the most reliable part of the sub

          • @Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world
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            59 months ago

            If it was setup properly, you just us an if statement like, “if communication lost to control for t>5 seconds, release balast” or something like that. I had 0 issue with the controller being an ots consumer good. The rest was an idiotic design, I won’t even say it was engineered.

    • @Bongles@lemm.ee
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      49 months ago

      Well, they did it just out in the open in some dusty warehouse. Comments I’ve read say that’s a pretty big deal.